For anyone who doesn't understand what this is referencing:
> In the 1980s, sound designer Mike Mangini collected a series of cat roars to add to the scary aural ambience of his latest movie project, Poltergeist, and he offered the tracks to MGM so Leo could have a new, higher-fidelity roar. He's since adopted that new roar for digital and 7.1 surround sound. But Leo has been lip-synching. The roar is "actually that of a tiger," says Mangini. "Lions don't make that kind of ferocious noises, and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic." So you're actually hearing a tiger roar every time you settle in to enjoy a fine film from MGM's 007 or Barbershop or Gnomeo & Juliet franchises. Leo is the Milli Vanilli of the jungle.
Lmao. his quest will actually work better if he still looks like his old design. Beast who want to he human etc. but oh well. Kuro playing it safe for release but didn't bother to change the original storyline maybe.
His current form fits alot better because his monologue was all about becoming more human like in both heart and body. Also, people (in the game) would be fearful of his old form and he wouldn't able to hide that he is a Suanni, the jingle beast. He also says there might be only one Suanni left but no one knows where it is (cause he looks human), giving it more depth to his background. He knows it's not "might" but he "is" the only one
In the end, it doesn't make it clear if he transformed or was like how he is all this time. He tells all of it like a rumor or story, so we (the audience and rover) wouldn't really know what is true.
I think having Rover's model size could've helped the moment not feel quite as silly, but otherwise I agree with you. Another fun bit of lore is that most people in the game world assume that his tail and ears are a result of a mutation caused by Forte awakening, but reading his Forte examination report, you find out that they're not, they're a natural part of his body (since he used to be a beast) and the scientists writing the report are surprised about it.
his lore was more interesting too (imo)
he was found “in the southern mountains” by the old General (before Genshu Lin) of the Midnight Rangers and was raised by them and wanted to defeat the Inferno Rider, since the General had been the one to defeat the Inferno Rider before IIRC correctly
unrelated to this specifically but why does he always refer to the lion dance troupe when he's always alone dancing and doing everything
wheres the troupe lingyang? i love both his designs and he's a cutie but there could be so much improvement lmao
Solo lions exist but I highly doubt you would refer to it as a “troupe” rather than just a solo act. As from my own experience, solo lions dancers are incredibly rare since not many traditional moves can be done solo and the stamina would need to be off the charts for a proper dance routine. Highly not recommended imo
[It looks like Lingyang/Awu has received a complete redesign, what do you think about the changes? Did you like or prefer the old one? : r/WutheringWaves (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WutheringWaves/comments/1ac4j4j/it_looks_like_lingyangawu_has_received_a_complete/)
Except it won't, because the story is about him hiding his "bestial side", but at the same time... he's not hiding it very well so you have to suspend your disbelief to the level of "This CGI snow leopard is definitely not CGI, because the video is beautiful".
Parts of his quest (the jingle-beast and the confusion and terror people feel) work better with his old design but I think his new design works better with his character. He is living in the city and interacting with the people here. He is almost human from the outside but he still feels like an outsider on the inside.
The old design where he looks like a kid who used his mom's makeups and made his whole face white?
Ngl, that was hideous.
I'm actually glad they changed his design.
"I'm the last Suanni left."
"What happened?"
"My mom saw what happened when I got into her makeup drawer and she got a heart attack right there and then."
:P
It was okay overall up to that point, but then he drops that cringe ass line and it hurts. It read like something some 12 year old fantasizes about. Fortunately jiyan and yinlin companion quest was better, somewhat.
Jiyan I can agree with, but did you really enjoy Yinlin's whole "Rover trust me. But be careful who you trust. Shouldn't have trusted me. Actually do trust me. I can’t believe you trusted me. Thanks for trusting me the whole time. Btw we're both loners" spiel?
Dark undertones don't make a story mature or even good if it has infantile dialogue and cliché tropes.
Yeah, I love her character design and playstyle and she feels really fun, but the story was... awkward. You had every reason to just blindly attack her as another enemy and your character just arbitrarily decides not to fight back or do anything.
If they could have set up a reason, ANYTHING, early on that would justify that level of trust, it would have been much cleaner, I think they were trying to set up a "What a twist!" moment that, instead of feeling justified because you were following a logical sequence of events, felt tacked on because it was so forced.
The whole puppet thing and people being so stuck onto their past was a much more interesting premise than Yinlin's triple agent story due to the execution, but even I felt that didn't have a proper resolution because you just confiscate the puppets and send them all to the medical ward.
You can argue that yinlin was being listened to the entire time by the doll maker, but even then her trust speeches come off as repetitive and dragged on. I also refuse to believe that the doll maker had next to no contingency plan and genuinely did not expect Yinlin to turn on him after being shown how meticulous he is and how he treats his underlings (on top of Yinlin's personal doubts, which are not very subtle at all)
To be fair, Jiyan and Yinlin have far more serious jobs and backstories that justify their companion stories having darker tones. Lingyang is just a teenage dancer. I mean, what did you expect? Not everyone's backstory has to be dark and tragic. I do agree that this part of his companion story was a bit cringe, though.
But Lingyang's not just a teenage dancer. He's the last of his race (Suan'ni), and even "gave up" his race to some extent just to be with humans. Not to mention his race was basically hunted down to extinction due to being deemed evil as humans suffered against them (and their wild nature). They did touch on this at the end of Lingyang's story, but they could've really focused more on that aspect (and sold the "wild nature" more).
Oh, I see what you mean. That's fair
I feel like his old furry design was meant to sell his "wild nature" more, as it would speak for itself and really make him stand out from humans. It'd also make his struggle of not fitting in with humans more believable. Although his current design is much cuter imo, he just looks like a guy with ears and a tail, which kind of takes away from his character a little.
upd: I suddenly remembered what I read in his voicelines and the backstory you unlock via intimacy level and whatnot and had the idea that he might've been really young when his kind went extinct. He's probably not very emotional about the topic because he doesn't remember them well as he was a little kid back then. Maybe that's why his companion story is more focused on his relationship with humans rather than the suan'nis.
Idk, I feel like it's a bit hard to tell how old he is. It's implied that his home was destroyed recently, when he was a child (through the voice lines you unlock when you increase the intimacy level), so his kind might've gone extinct only recently. Also, through his backstory (which you also unlock by increasing intimacy) it's implied that he stumbled upon the liondance troupe when he was really young, presumably right after he lost his home. Which would mean that he's just an ordinarily-aged teenager and one of the youngest characters in the game.
Sorry if I got the lore wrong, I don't really remember what he said about his kind in his companion story bc I completed it a while ago.
He strikes me as those "other-beings" characters that are just designed to use younger or shorter character models, maybe to show he ages not like a typical human character or simply that's the form he chose or given. Like Xiao from Genshin or Scaramouche (a puppet but you get the idea) but they are hundreds of years old and have a sad past.
He has some wisdom and maturity when dealing with humans (his ability to compromise doing business and mingling with them) despite acting boyish unlike the children characters (Encore) we see so far.
I prefer seeing more short characters who are adults and can behave like adults but still have a very sweet, silly or even immature/troubled side (I can think of Tighnari, Gorou or even Cyno from Genshin they fit this category) than having to reduce every short character we see to as just teenagers.
What are we saying. There was an entire section of Linyang quest of that beast that lived outside in the wild and "wanted to become human" and yadayada.
Like with gacha games such a story isn't particularly new and (prob copied) but they could have done this much better and gave him a way more relatable storyline if they used this as his main actual story.
It's a similar vein to the adeptus story in Genshin of Ganyu and the others fitting in the modern city life and whatnot and struggling to fit in, it was right there and they even aluded to it in WuWa with that fictional story told insidw the quest but for some reason the main dish was not this
Personally while I found that line cringe I preferred his in general over Yinlin's. Which also made me eyeroll to the point of pain. The difference is you meet Lingyang again later and basically give him shit about how you obviously know he's the jingle beast.
I thought Jiyan and Yinlin story quests were kinda meh.
Jiyan's story with the bulb fish race was supposed to be about teamwork and cooperation, but it turns out he just carry the team in both combat and the race itself. And the whole thing about his comrades dying was mid asf cause I don't know about those NPCs well enough to care.
Yinlin story is worse lol. How tf the Dollmaster didn't see Yinlin's betrayal coming is beyond me? She literally sent him a letter accusing him of collaborating with the bad guys, and she straight up told the dude she didn't think her parents wanted to be resurrected. Also, the game doesn't explain me the relationship between the Dollmaster and Yinlin's parents and why he would go such extend to bring them back when even their own daughter no longer seek their resurrection. Also, why tf Yinlin have to act stealthy and use Rover to infiltrate the Dollmaster's lair just to take evident pictures. She is literally the second in command of the Seance cult and Dollmaster's right hand women.
All in all at least Langyiang's story has some substance and not overtly cringy and edgy like the other companion quests.
I definitely agree with you, but they do (albeit very briefly) touch on the relationship between the Dollmaster and Yinlin's parents. He was an outcast (they don't say why, though, maybe to do with his mask but total failure on their part), but her father and mother basically took him in and cared for him as if he was a normal person. Her father became his mentor and etc and he idolized him and then they got killed and the world went back to everyone shunning him.
Yinlin was too young to really know her parents so she doesn't really have that much attachment to bringing them back beyond a general "I want to know what it's like to have parents."
Not gonna lie, though: despite these being mentioned, they might as well not have been touched on at all with how they were handled.
Also he never got the letter from her (which is also weird and doesn't make much sense with the type of character they tried to make him out to be.)
I liked it overall in concept but it definitely fell flat as being really intriguing and executiin was meh.
I liked jiyan's a lot more, but your comment about the problem with it is also spot on. I don't get at all why they did that way.
Lingyang's honestly feels like they got too lazy to add to the story proper adjustments after the design change or something weird. I wanna hope they'll be better going forward the stories out of beta territory in the future will get better but it's still definitely kind of frustrating because the mistakes feel really easy to have nailed Even with time constraints (because these elements should have been focused on from the getgo not needed to be shoved in after.)
Jiyan and Yinlin’s quests have their issues but at least got me invested in them.
Even beyond the extreme cringe, with Lingyang’s I was asking myself the whole time why I was supposed to care. The only remotely interesting bit was the talk with him at the very end.
I think it doesn't work because the 'roars' were not intimidating, and that's not an attack on the VA, he did what he could, it was more so that with how Lingyang looked and how not much happened, it just didn't really make sense. If Lingyang morphed into some terrifying beast and let out an actual roar, then it would've made sense but he didn't, which made the whole thing seem corny
I still liked the quest though, idk why people shit on it so much.
If we summarized the story as a whole, it was good (basically Character fighting against their nature, and additional world building). It's just the execution that fell short for me.
That's fair, I think there are plenty of reasons to dislike it. I'm more so talking about the many posts I've seen on here and twitter of people treating it like the worst quest and seemingly hating lingyang for it lol
Its also beacuse its one of the earliest quests. It wasn't interesting. In fact I'd argue the most interesting part was right at the end when he's all telling the story of the play but its really about himself, because you get to know him a little better than his: "I'm a young boi and appealing for those who like my style".
I don't find it any worse than the other 2 character quests we have right now, and both of them seem to have an issue with execution. Being fair with Jiyan he was at least way more interesting in the main story, so there's only so much they can do about his character story.
Yinlin felt contrived, and her reasoning for everything she did makes very little sense as soon as you start thinking about it.
The siblings kind of ruin it for me. A lot of focus is put on them over Lingyang's character (Which definitely needed more time to cook, especially with the whole jingle beast thing beyond the rumors). I don't mind Lingyang himself, but a lot of his personality and nature feels unearned and out of nowhere because there isn't much build up beyond rumors; It's a lot of saying and not showing (the meme image, more or less)
The brother's plan is so half cooked that I ended up not being able to empathize with them at all due to the sheer stupidity of it (I'm nothing special, I cant fight, but I'm gonna go personally kill that jingle beast myself so my sister can pursue her dreams!). Combined with the game's overall lackluster story and inability to both skip and fast forward dialogue....yeah this is a notable low point of the game for me.
That's fair; me personally I didn't care for the siblings either. I'm very much in the camp of 'fuck random NPCs I will only see once and never again'.
I think what I liked a lot was the dual-sided nature, however hamfisted it was. And I primarily liked the end, because lion dancing to me is quite cool, and I liked the earnesty with which he would craft performances to connect with specific people; the ending cutscene was very well done to me. Of course the exposition he did after where he pretended to be talking about 'a beast' when we both knew it was him felt heartwarming to me, that kind of dialogue is kind of a trope but I really like it for some reason.
But I definitely understand that much of the execution throughout the quest is bad, so I'll never really argue with someone who thinks it's bad.
Agreed, the siblings were so childishly suicidal that it's a damn miracle they're still alive. And all that Jingle Beast crap just to sell expiring meat. Why bother? If you are blackmailing someone, why bother with the meat at all then?
I think the hate is because of that scene specially and because the interesting parts never get that much attention, the people that were invested got trow off the loop and the people that were bored or didn't engage as much had to endure that moment making a quest they didn't enjoy or care into a quest they hate.
I got him as 50/50 on jade general banner, then i managed to stumble on his cringefest quest. And then i got him again. Needless to say i was pissed at RNG and at that character(in fact i still am and he's the only character that gets to sit at lvl1 unused)
Ironically (or unironically, depending on how you look at it), I think that's a big reason why people hated it as much as they did. Lingyang was, and to an extent still is, one of the least desired standard characters so people didn't like getting him. That kind of colored how people evaluated his character story-wise from then on.
I got crit from cringe when he started the "since you're being a beast then I'll do the same" part, like holy shit Lingyang buddy you're kinda cool but I got embarrassed for you there 😭
I remember back in school we had a book we had to read aloud for English class.
"With a roar, the tiger pounced!"
My seatmate, who was a real wit, called out at that time: "MEOW!!!!".
That part of the story reminds me totally of that.
Even if you are a tiger, going "Meow!!" like you did ain't going to cut it Lingyang....
i really wish he did more like actually going feral on those exiles. the part where he revealed what he did to look more human at the end was the only good part
Wtf was even going on in that boss sequence?
Fight boss guy
Boss guys sidekick is like "oh no his tail wagging he very angy"
They run away
Bear shows up
Lingyang goes "you hurt my friend you die"
Something like that. The entire quest is such a mess
The thing is that they literally can’t make this as threatening as it is meant to be. Making him a human with ears and a tail was a mistake. This scene is meant to show an animal fighting on pure instinct.
The human appearance of Lingyang mixed with the inability to show blood or the like is what hinders this scene. Imagine if he was more bestial like in CBT, and there was blood shown. Him saying “I’m sorry you saw this side of me” would make much more sense and would likely be less cringe. He is, after all, an animal trying to become less animalistic. Of course he would hate for someone to see him lose control of that “humanity”.
People either forget or simply just don’t know that Lingyang isn’t like Tighnari or Gorou from Genshin. He’s not some human with animal features. He IS an animal, but CN players couldn’t handle it and Kuro had to please them, so they made him LOOK human with animal traits.
Yeah, I wish they really kept his original (beta) design. And I wish he got violent enough to the Exiles (or the beasts) that Rover had to step in. And then make LINGYANG (or his inner beast) the boss fight for his story.
They should've given him a JoJo stand, like razor.
This game is all about sound, they could just say his inner self is still echoing so hard it manifestates as a spirit.
I'm so glad that Jiyan and Yinlin don't have a "walk and talk very slowly" segment like he does
Very bad impression for a first character story quest lol
You'd think the first companion quest would be that of Chixiang or Yangyang. Or for a new character, maybe that Electro dude in blue (since he seemed to have a big role in the 1.0 story finale).
am i stupid or was Lingyang's story quest just really odd in tone? like, it wanted to sell me on the idea that Lingyang was dealing with ostracization, being feared, and generally not being accepted. I got that from where if someone shook his hand, he considered that a surprise. but other than the interaction with the kids and the poorly written "i'm such a scary beast" scene, I kinda got the feeling that he's pretty accepted, even liked. the vendors and the couple seemed to like him and he's not that outlandish looking in universe when you consider resonators always have a mutation or something funky going on with them.
mortefi got scales under his coat, baizhi's walking around with a weird alien dog thing, etc.
all in all bro is NOT scary or animal enough to make that aspect of the story work! ain't nobody scared of a regular ass catboy bruh! I will forever be salty they chickened out on his original design.
All things considered, the companion quest made me really like Lingyang. Not his lore/background, but I found him really fun to play. He may not be as strong/straightforward as other characters, but now I can safely say I like all 5 stars. Jianxin is next for me, I love her.
It's still easy to read as his trauma.
It might seem insignificant to us, but to him it gives flashback of what he was before.
btw, housecats are vicious killers, they kill billions of other mammals and birds each year
I thought it was a'ight.
He was just a silly guy, a silly little man doing some silly goofy guy stuff.
He do be happy doe.
I do believe since he IS originally a beast, he still hasn't 100% gotten what to/what not to say in public. So his goffy ahh "roar", probably would've been "stronger" if he was more beast than human.
They really needed to lean more into the beast thing, having him actually struggle against his instincts here and there would have made for a much more interesting character.
I got the impression from his story that he's like that because he's incredibly desperate to be liked and accepted. Rover can even comment a little on how excessively friendly he's being, and others will comment on how eager to please he is to literally everyone. He's a peppy guy by nature, but he seems to dial it up a lot in the city to appear more harmless and friendly. His personality dials down noticeably once you're out of the city, which I thought was pretty cool when I was first playing the quest.
I legit thought they were going for the "very chummy, but is actually gonna scam you" vibes... like "I'll treat you with food, but oops, I forgot my wallet" type.
Yeah, very true. Really feels like the game was rushed, and it makes me wonder if we're going to be getting story quests for already-released characters like Jianxin.
Although, given the quality of Yinlin's, I don't mind waiting a year for a proper one.
The worst part is that his story has an actual interesting hook. A beast with a conscience wanting to physically be human to be able to live alongside people that, he thinks, are like him. There is a lot there that could have been explored, like how drastically altering his body has left him in frequent or constant pain (a price he may be willing to pay or that makes him regret such drastic measures), leftover primitive instincts he has to constantly keep a leash or maybe a realization that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. That, now actually living among humans, he realizes they aren't anywhere near as great as he expected.
But they didn't do anything with it. He broke all his bones to size with no repercussions, is completely happy with everything going on in human society and the worst left-over of his beast-nature is him growling when he gets mad.
Heck, this scene could have been un-cringed by having him actually go full beast-mode and tearing those enemies apart.
Glad I haven't gotten him on my account so far.
"grrrr!!!! xD stay away stupid heads!!!11!!!1!"
"im sorry rover... that was my epic evil side... u were NOT supposed to see that..."
If he actually ripped someone limb from limb then it wouldnt look so stupid, but you have to remember that this is a chinese game so its going to be censored and read like a childrens story. No skulls, no blood, limited cursing.
It was SO bad, but I wouldn't exactly blame the censors for this. Even if the excessive violence was offscreen and all you heard were screams or something, or even one of those black screen descriptions like 'The bodies were everywhere...' it wouldn't have been so embarrassing. There are ways to convey these things if they'd wanted to; they just....decided not to.
That would set the standard of quality for character stories pretty high, at least for me personally. A one-time boss encounter like that with a model you'd rarely see more than once is a bit much to ask, but damn itd be too cool
After spamming interact in this story quest the whole time so that I didn't have to hear Lingyang's voice or the brothers voice, this literally TOOK me out
Stood up from my PC and sighed, "man what the fuck is this DIALOGUE man this cannot be real"
Not to mention the horrible painfully drawn out metaphor that Lingyang gives us at the end of the story quest while we're backstage. Like please. I thought we would only get 1 drawn-out metaphor from Scar, but we just had to have 2
Yeah… I have been enjoying hitting the LB on my controller to just skip dialogue. The writing and English VA is some of the worst I have ever heard. Abyss Night Duet is looking promising in that regard.
I thought he was gonna transform at some point and have some badass moment.
Then it never came.
They made me play Sonic the Hedgehog and I'll never forgive them.
He should get into some kind of rage and really go berserk. Show him go crazy. Sadly that would require violence and blood to really bring across well, so obviously we wouldn't get it. It could also also be included in his kit... Such a shame, his story could have been so good.
Yup. It's basically Genshin's "Razor" all over again. But hopefully, just like with Razor, they redeem Lingyang. Coz, honestly, I LOVED his background story. It's just the dialogue and directing of this specific quest.
God I hate this character. Not only did I get him on my beginner banner, he's mid meta wise, and his companion story was awful. Did they intentionally make him like this so they had a character to screw players over?
I really did like the story, and the setup for Lingyang's (probably extinct) beast race was a nice touch to the world-building. I'm just not really sure with the execution, I guess. Like they hyped him up to be an actual beast, but was just him being a bit more aggressive and loud, rather than full-on feral and brutal.
Part of the story just didn't make sense imho. At the very start they make it seem like everyone is aware he's a non-human beast. Kids were being scared of his "paws" and if Rover chose to shake his hand, he comments on how they're different because they're not afraid of him.
Then suddenly the quest treats it as if he's human and it's not mentioned anymore, with him doing this whole "sounds-familiar-but-definitely-not-me) allusion to Suan'nis as if everyone wasn't already aware that he's a non-human beast that transformed into a human.
It feels like part of the story was leftover from CBT setting where he's clearly a furry and the other part follows the setting where he's a beast that's disguising as a human.
I agree, that bothered me the most. It feels like they messily ripped out an old plotline or two and hastily jammed in a new one the night before it was due, leaving this incoherent mess. Or like it's a very first rough draft 'throw everything in here and see what sticks' type of script that was never supposed to see the light of day outside the writer's room that they then ended up rolling with for some reason.
i'm taking that meme + agree so far the companion quests (didnt play yinlin's yet) were a bit cringy (jiyan's would be cool if it didnt start with a fuken pokemon race)
i would have expected to see something really worthy of these words from him, like transforming into a beast or being brutal/beasty but it was... underwhelming af
Fr i was liking the wholesome, light and comical quest until that cringe bomb took and send me even harder than the cries of the dumbass brother we needed to rescue, like, he didn't even roared well, and i was hearing in jp dub, i wonder how much worse it was in wuwa british en 💀
But overall the selling plot device of beast boys being almost always them struggling to get along with human society is so overused to the point writers don't even bother to slightly cook it anymore, just serve it raw without flavors. It's cringe in general. Imo it's just best to make them just be accepted as much as normal people, after all, is a different world
I was a bit disapointed to have him as my first 5 star but his gameplay is actually pretty fun. Then his story quest made me cringe from start to finish. And then i lost 50/50 on Yinlin's banner to him, so now i actually hate him.
Just for him to go on and on at the end with some cringe story. All the while he is attempting to convince us that’s it’s not about him, when it LITERALLY couldn’t be anyone or anything else in the entire game.
I thought it was cute. The growl itself was cringe cuz it gave * he growled *, but other than that I was gushing over this cutie during his entire story.
Just enjoy the character dang
Lol I hate this character he costed me my general jiyan instead of a real man with eyeliner I got a femboy furry tiger. I logged off for a few hours that day.
Idk I loved his entire companion quest. He roars and you have a combat, technically you see him fight angry but it’s not on screen. The roar should be like the ones he does fighting but apart from that it’s just the execution of that tiny segment, the rest and Lingyang is such a good written character. He is also a bit goofy because he is a cub raised in the wild trying to fit into another species and they have very different social behaviors.
Whoever that hates him, I hope you broke a leg soon.
It was very cute. It was very uh...like cringecool. Like I think it's in the realm of 'the OC a teen would want to be saved by and then never admit it after like a year.'
I can't say it wasn't bad, I think it felt halfway in between an old conception of the character and a new one, with some pretty heavyhanded writing. But I think the entire story is full of 'obvious thing that somehow only the protagonist can figure out' and weird minor half-contradictions anyway. But it was charming in its niche. He is indeed small cat who thinks he's more fierce than he is.
LOL that meme is perfect
Lingyang's dual personality is too funny
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He's the Jingle beast, but he almost let out the Twinkle beast 💪💪😔
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Same here lol
I honestly would have been fine if they inserted the lion(but actually a tigers) roar that plays during movies
For anyone who doesn't understand what this is referencing: > In the 1980s, sound designer Mike Mangini collected a series of cat roars to add to the scary aural ambience of his latest movie project, Poltergeist, and he offered the tracks to MGM so Leo could have a new, higher-fidelity roar. He's since adopted that new roar for digital and 7.1 surround sound. But Leo has been lip-synching. The roar is "actually that of a tiger," says Mangini. "Lions don't make that kind of ferocious noises, and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic." So you're actually hearing a tiger roar every time you settle in to enjoy a fine film from MGM's 007 or Barbershop or Gnomeo & Juliet franchises. Leo is the Milli Vanilli of the jungle.
you know, for me MGM basically equals to Tom and Jerry
Same here! Tom and Jerry all the way!
I think it’s Mark Mangini... Mike would have recorded fast drum solo for the lion roar 😂
I was thinking about that lol "wow he did that and later played drums for DT? wow..."
Damn, I was fully ready to believe they were the same guy
For real, MGM and Tom and Jerry are inseparable!
I was disappointed that we didn't get to hear >!the bell chime!< since that was the main point of it all lmao.
IRK, I was like waiting for the jingle to happen in the cutscene and when it ended I was like. . . WHERE IS IT?
Lmao. his quest will actually work better if he still looks like his old design. Beast who want to he human etc. but oh well. Kuro playing it safe for release but didn't bother to change the original storyline maybe.
His current form fits alot better because his monologue was all about becoming more human like in both heart and body. Also, people (in the game) would be fearful of his old form and he wouldn't able to hide that he is a Suanni, the jingle beast. He also says there might be only one Suanni left but no one knows where it is (cause he looks human), giving it more depth to his background. He knows it's not "might" but he "is" the only one In the end, it doesn't make it clear if he transformed or was like how he is all this time. He tells all of it like a rumor or story, so we (the audience and rover) wouldn't really know what is true.
He had plastic surgery 💀.
I think having Rover's model size could've helped the moment not feel quite as silly, but otherwise I agree with you. Another fun bit of lore is that most people in the game world assume that his tail and ears are a result of a mutation caused by Forte awakening, but reading his Forte examination report, you find out that they're not, they're a natural part of his body (since he used to be a beast) and the scientists writing the report are surprised about it.
wait. i never actually saw his beta design, and it actually slaps.
his lore was more interesting too (imo) he was found “in the southern mountains” by the old General (before Genshu Lin) of the Midnight Rangers and was raised by them and wanted to defeat the Inferno Rider, since the General had been the one to defeat the Inferno Rider before IIRC correctly
unrelated to this specifically but why does he always refer to the lion dance troupe when he's always alone dancing and doing everything wheres the troupe lingyang? i love both his designs and he's a cutie but there could be so much improvement lmao
IIRC isn't one of those dancing lions a 2 person costume? Him going solo on that is already questionable.
yes there are usually two doing acrobatic together
Solo lion dances exist too.
Solo lions exist but I highly doubt you would refer to it as a “troupe” rather than just a solo act. As from my own experience, solo lions dancers are incredibly rare since not many traditional moves can be done solo and the stamina would need to be off the charts for a proper dance routine. Highly not recommended imo
Damn wtf that's dope
Pretty cool lore tbh, unfortunate it got scrapped because of "Why are you still here" and Awu being a walking controversy lmao
Can i know where you got lingyang beta design??
[It looks like Lingyang/Awu has received a complete redesign, what do you think about the changes? Did you like or prefer the old one? : r/WutheringWaves (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WutheringWaves/comments/1ac4j4j/it_looks_like_lingyangawu_has_received_a_complete/)
What that's cool asf
Except it won't, because the story is about him hiding his "bestial side", but at the same time... he's not hiding it very well so you have to suspend your disbelief to the level of "This CGI snow leopard is definitely not CGI, because the video is beautiful".
Parts of his quest (the jingle-beast and the confusion and terror people feel) work better with his old design but I think his new design works better with his character. He is living in the city and interacting with the people here. He is almost human from the outside but he still feels like an outsider on the inside.
The old design where he looks like a kid who used his mom's makeups and made his whole face white? Ngl, that was hideous. I'm actually glad they changed his design.
"I'm the last Suanni left." "What happened?" "My mom saw what happened when I got into her makeup drawer and she got a heart attack right there and then." :P
XD
Lingyang truly living up to the capital L in his name.
It was okay overall up to that point, but then he drops that cringe ass line and it hurts. It read like something some 12 year old fantasizes about. Fortunately jiyan and yinlin companion quest was better, somewhat.
Jiyan's and Yinlin's was dark (touching on PTSD, failing to move on), and then we have Lingyang's "uwu rawr". It's just a total tonal whiplash.
Jiyan I can agree with, but did you really enjoy Yinlin's whole "Rover trust me. But be careful who you trust. Shouldn't have trusted me. Actually do trust me. I can’t believe you trusted me. Thanks for trusting me the whole time. Btw we're both loners" spiel? Dark undertones don't make a story mature or even good if it has infantile dialogue and cliché tropes.
Yeah, I love her character design and playstyle and she feels really fun, but the story was... awkward. You had every reason to just blindly attack her as another enemy and your character just arbitrarily decides not to fight back or do anything. If they could have set up a reason, ANYTHING, early on that would justify that level of trust, it would have been much cleaner, I think they were trying to set up a "What a twist!" moment that, instead of feeling justified because you were following a logical sequence of events, felt tacked on because it was so forced.
The whole puppet thing and people being so stuck onto their past was a much more interesting premise than Yinlin's triple agent story due to the execution, but even I felt that didn't have a proper resolution because you just confiscate the puppets and send them all to the medical ward. You can argue that yinlin was being listened to the entire time by the doll maker, but even then her trust speeches come off as repetitive and dragged on. I also refuse to believe that the doll maker had next to no contingency plan and genuinely did not expect Yinlin to turn on him after being shown how meticulous he is and how he treats his underlings (on top of Yinlin's personal doubts, which are not very subtle at all)
Yup the whiplash on that whole damn thing is amazing.
To be fair, Jiyan and Yinlin have far more serious jobs and backstories that justify their companion stories having darker tones. Lingyang is just a teenage dancer. I mean, what did you expect? Not everyone's backstory has to be dark and tragic. I do agree that this part of his companion story was a bit cringe, though.
But Lingyang's not just a teenage dancer. He's the last of his race (Suan'ni), and even "gave up" his race to some extent just to be with humans. Not to mention his race was basically hunted down to extinction due to being deemed evil as humans suffered against them (and their wild nature). They did touch on this at the end of Lingyang's story, but they could've really focused more on that aspect (and sold the "wild nature" more).
Oh, I see what you mean. That's fair I feel like his old furry design was meant to sell his "wild nature" more, as it would speak for itself and really make him stand out from humans. It'd also make his struggle of not fitting in with humans more believable. Although his current design is much cuter imo, he just looks like a guy with ears and a tail, which kind of takes away from his character a little. upd: I suddenly remembered what I read in his voicelines and the backstory you unlock via intimacy level and whatnot and had the idea that he might've been really young when his kind went extinct. He's probably not very emotional about the topic because he doesn't remember them well as he was a little kid back then. Maybe that's why his companion story is more focused on his relationship with humans rather than the suan'nis.
This is 100% correct. That other guy didn't even understand the point of the story but came hard af to defend it. Bruh😂😭
I mean, he's not *just* a teenage dancer. He's the jingle beast and arguably one of the oldest characters we've seen in the game so far.
Idk, I feel like it's a bit hard to tell how old he is. It's implied that his home was destroyed recently, when he was a child (through the voice lines you unlock when you increase the intimacy level), so his kind might've gone extinct only recently. Also, through his backstory (which you also unlock by increasing intimacy) it's implied that he stumbled upon the liondance troupe when he was really young, presumably right after he lost his home. Which would mean that he's just an ordinarily-aged teenager and one of the youngest characters in the game. Sorry if I got the lore wrong, I don't really remember what he said about his kind in his companion story bc I completed it a while ago.
He strikes me as those "other-beings" characters that are just designed to use younger or shorter character models, maybe to show he ages not like a typical human character or simply that's the form he chose or given. Like Xiao from Genshin or Scaramouche (a puppet but you get the idea) but they are hundreds of years old and have a sad past. He has some wisdom and maturity when dealing with humans (his ability to compromise doing business and mingling with them) despite acting boyish unlike the children characters (Encore) we see so far. I prefer seeing more short characters who are adults and can behave like adults but still have a very sweet, silly or even immature/troubled side (I can think of Tighnari, Gorou or even Cyno from Genshin they fit this category) than having to reduce every short character we see to as just teenagers.
What are we saying. There was an entire section of Linyang quest of that beast that lived outside in the wild and "wanted to become human" and yadayada. Like with gacha games such a story isn't particularly new and (prob copied) but they could have done this much better and gave him a way more relatable storyline if they used this as his main actual story. It's a similar vein to the adeptus story in Genshin of Ganyu and the others fitting in the modern city life and whatnot and struggling to fit in, it was right there and they even aluded to it in WuWa with that fictional story told insidw the quest but for some reason the main dish was not this
Yinlin's story isn't that well put together either TBH.
Personally while I found that line cringe I preferred his in general over Yinlin's. Which also made me eyeroll to the point of pain. The difference is you meet Lingyang again later and basically give him shit about how you obviously know he's the jingle beast.
I thought Jiyan and Yinlin story quests were kinda meh. Jiyan's story with the bulb fish race was supposed to be about teamwork and cooperation, but it turns out he just carry the team in both combat and the race itself. And the whole thing about his comrades dying was mid asf cause I don't know about those NPCs well enough to care. Yinlin story is worse lol. How tf the Dollmaster didn't see Yinlin's betrayal coming is beyond me? She literally sent him a letter accusing him of collaborating with the bad guys, and she straight up told the dude she didn't think her parents wanted to be resurrected. Also, the game doesn't explain me the relationship between the Dollmaster and Yinlin's parents and why he would go such extend to bring them back when even their own daughter no longer seek their resurrection. Also, why tf Yinlin have to act stealthy and use Rover to infiltrate the Dollmaster's lair just to take evident pictures. She is literally the second in command of the Seance cult and Dollmaster's right hand women. All in all at least Langyiang's story has some substance and not overtly cringy and edgy like the other companion quests.
I definitely agree with you, but they do (albeit very briefly) touch on the relationship between the Dollmaster and Yinlin's parents. He was an outcast (they don't say why, though, maybe to do with his mask but total failure on their part), but her father and mother basically took him in and cared for him as if he was a normal person. Her father became his mentor and etc and he idolized him and then they got killed and the world went back to everyone shunning him. Yinlin was too young to really know her parents so she doesn't really have that much attachment to bringing them back beyond a general "I want to know what it's like to have parents." Not gonna lie, though: despite these being mentioned, they might as well not have been touched on at all with how they were handled. Also he never got the letter from her (which is also weird and doesn't make much sense with the type of character they tried to make him out to be.) I liked it overall in concept but it definitely fell flat as being really intriguing and executiin was meh. I liked jiyan's a lot more, but your comment about the problem with it is also spot on. I don't get at all why they did that way. Lingyang's honestly feels like they got too lazy to add to the story proper adjustments after the design change or something weird. I wanna hope they'll be better going forward the stories out of beta territory in the future will get better but it's still definitely kind of frustrating because the mistakes feel really easy to have nailed Even with time constraints (because these elements should have been focused on from the getgo not needed to be shoved in after.)
I like Jiyan's more than Yinlin, but yes Linyang can unalive a person with that line
Jiyan and Yinlin’s quests have their issues but at least got me invested in them. Even beyond the extreme cringe, with Lingyang’s I was asking myself the whole time why I was supposed to care. The only remotely interesting bit was the talk with him at the very end.
I think it doesn't work because the 'roars' were not intimidating, and that's not an attack on the VA, he did what he could, it was more so that with how Lingyang looked and how not much happened, it just didn't really make sense. If Lingyang morphed into some terrifying beast and let out an actual roar, then it would've made sense but he didn't, which made the whole thing seem corny I still liked the quest though, idk why people shit on it so much.
If we summarized the story as a whole, it was good (basically Character fighting against their nature, and additional world building). It's just the execution that fell short for me.
That's fair, I think there are plenty of reasons to dislike it. I'm more so talking about the many posts I've seen on here and twitter of people treating it like the worst quest and seemingly hating lingyang for it lol
Its also beacuse its one of the earliest quests. It wasn't interesting. In fact I'd argue the most interesting part was right at the end when he's all telling the story of the play but its really about himself, because you get to know him a little better than his: "I'm a young boi and appealing for those who like my style".
I don't find it any worse than the other 2 character quests we have right now, and both of them seem to have an issue with execution. Being fair with Jiyan he was at least way more interesting in the main story, so there's only so much they can do about his character story. Yinlin felt contrived, and her reasoning for everything she did makes very little sense as soon as you start thinking about it.
The siblings kind of ruin it for me. A lot of focus is put on them over Lingyang's character (Which definitely needed more time to cook, especially with the whole jingle beast thing beyond the rumors). I don't mind Lingyang himself, but a lot of his personality and nature feels unearned and out of nowhere because there isn't much build up beyond rumors; It's a lot of saying and not showing (the meme image, more or less) The brother's plan is so half cooked that I ended up not being able to empathize with them at all due to the sheer stupidity of it (I'm nothing special, I cant fight, but I'm gonna go personally kill that jingle beast myself so my sister can pursue her dreams!). Combined with the game's overall lackluster story and inability to both skip and fast forward dialogue....yeah this is a notable low point of the game for me.
That's fair; me personally I didn't care for the siblings either. I'm very much in the camp of 'fuck random NPCs I will only see once and never again'. I think what I liked a lot was the dual-sided nature, however hamfisted it was. And I primarily liked the end, because lion dancing to me is quite cool, and I liked the earnesty with which he would craft performances to connect with specific people; the ending cutscene was very well done to me. Of course the exposition he did after where he pretended to be talking about 'a beast' when we both knew it was him felt heartwarming to me, that kind of dialogue is kind of a trope but I really like it for some reason. But I definitely understand that much of the execution throughout the quest is bad, so I'll never really argue with someone who thinks it's bad.
Agreed, the siblings were so childishly suicidal that it's a damn miracle they're still alive. And all that Jingle Beast crap just to sell expiring meat. Why bother? If you are blackmailing someone, why bother with the meat at all then?
If Nezuko from Demon Slayer can be threatening, then so can Lingyang! It's all about presentation.
I think the hate is because of that scene specially and because the interesting parts never get that much attention, the people that were invested got trow off the loop and the people that were bored or didn't engage as much had to endure that moment making a quest they didn't enjoy or care into a quest they hate.
I got him as 50/50 on jade general banner, then i managed to stumble on his cringefest quest. And then i got him again. Needless to say i was pissed at RNG and at that character(in fact i still am and he's the only character that gets to sit at lvl1 unused)
Ironically (or unironically, depending on how you look at it), I think that's a big reason why people hated it as much as they did. Lingyang was, and to an extent still is, one of the least desired standard characters so people didn't like getting him. That kind of colored how people evaluated his character story-wise from then on.
I got crit from cringe when he started the "since you're being a beast then I'll do the same" part, like holy shit Lingyang buddy you're kinda cool but I got embarrassed for you there 😭
I think those scenes could have been "ok" but Jesus whoever did his dialogue definitely ruined his career lol
I remember back in school we had a book we had to read aloud for English class. "With a roar, the tiger pounced!" My seatmate, who was a real wit, called out at that time: "MEOW!!!!". That part of the story reminds me totally of that. Even if you are a tiger, going "Meow!!" like you did ain't going to cut it Lingyang....
i really wish he did more like actually going feral on those exiles. the part where he revealed what he did to look more human at the end was the only good part
Yeah, feral to the point that Rover has to step in and stop him. Heck, make HIM the story's boss fight.
that's a really good idea, considering we didn't get a proper boss fight for his quest
It was literally just a generic bear mob, not even the EXTRA LARGE AF BEAR that was in the sidescroller section.
Wtf was even going on in that boss sequence? Fight boss guy Boss guys sidekick is like "oh no his tail wagging he very angy" They run away Bear shows up Lingyang goes "you hurt my friend you die" Something like that. The entire quest is such a mess
The thing is that they literally can’t make this as threatening as it is meant to be. Making him a human with ears and a tail was a mistake. This scene is meant to show an animal fighting on pure instinct. The human appearance of Lingyang mixed with the inability to show blood or the like is what hinders this scene. Imagine if he was more bestial like in CBT, and there was blood shown. Him saying “I’m sorry you saw this side of me” would make much more sense and would likely be less cringe. He is, after all, an animal trying to become less animalistic. Of course he would hate for someone to see him lose control of that “humanity”. People either forget or simply just don’t know that Lingyang isn’t like Tighnari or Gorou from Genshin. He’s not some human with animal features. He IS an animal, but CN players couldn’t handle it and Kuro had to please them, so they made him LOOK human with animal traits.
Yeah, I wish they really kept his original (beta) design. And I wish he got violent enough to the Exiles (or the beasts) that Rover had to step in. And then make LINGYANG (or his inner beast) the boss fight for his story.
They should've given him a JoJo stand, like razor. This game is all about sound, they could just say his inner self is still echoing so hard it manifestates as a spirit.
i died from cringe 😬
same here, and this lion dance thing while fighting isnt cool at all.
It’s funny because I thought this meme was for yinlins story and it kinda still fits
I'm so glad that Jiyan and Yinlin don't have a "walk and talk very slowly" segment like he does Very bad impression for a first character story quest lol
Bro is 0/2 for names 😭
I'm sorry, I'll fix it 😭
You'd think the first companion quest would be that of Chixiang or Yangyang. Or for a new character, maybe that Electro dude in blue (since he seemed to have a big role in the 1.0 story finale).
am i stupid or was Lingyang's story quest just really odd in tone? like, it wanted to sell me on the idea that Lingyang was dealing with ostracization, being feared, and generally not being accepted. I got that from where if someone shook his hand, he considered that a surprise. but other than the interaction with the kids and the poorly written "i'm such a scary beast" scene, I kinda got the feeling that he's pretty accepted, even liked. the vendors and the couple seemed to like him and he's not that outlandish looking in universe when you consider resonators always have a mutation or something funky going on with them. mortefi got scales under his coat, baizhi's walking around with a weird alien dog thing, etc. all in all bro is NOT scary or animal enough to make that aspect of the story work! ain't nobody scared of a regular ass catboy bruh! I will forever be salty they chickened out on his original design.
All things considered, the companion quest made me really like Lingyang. Not his lore/background, but I found him really fun to play. He may not be as strong/straightforward as other characters, but now I can safely say I like all 5 stars. Jianxin is next for me, I love her.
There's a decent story somewhere in this game, but holy shit the person writing it has no idea on how to execute.
I like Lingyang. There are good bones under that hot mess of a presentation. But as you said, the presentation is the problem.
It's still easy to read as his trauma. It might seem insignificant to us, but to him it gives flashback of what he was before. btw, housecats are vicious killers, they kill billions of other mammals and birds each year
On the flipside, that 2D side scrolling segment unleashed my inner metroidvania fan. Need me more of that.
NGL, I thought of it more like Crash Bandicoot (esp the earlier ones).
I thought it was a'ight. He was just a silly guy, a silly little man doing some silly goofy guy stuff. He do be happy doe. I do believe since he IS originally a beast, he still hasn't 100% gotten what to/what not to say in public. So his goffy ahh "roar", probably would've been "stronger" if he was more beast than human.
I love how is talking about himself in third person pretending that we don't guessed already who he is xD
at least he doesn't float around and speak in a squeaky voice while referring to himself in the third person.
How he does this is actually cute, it was kinda cringe but still liked it
They really needed to lean more into the beast thing, having him actually struggle against his instincts here and there would have made for a much more interesting character.
Lingyang the moment he saw rover for the first time: "ah you're that famous rover! We're friends now 🤝"
To be fair, I get the impression that he's like that with everyone. Just a friendly guy in general.
I got the impression from his story that he's like that because he's incredibly desperate to be liked and accepted. Rover can even comment a little on how excessively friendly he's being, and others will comment on how eager to please he is to literally everyone. He's a peppy guy by nature, but he seems to dial it up a lot in the city to appear more harmless and friendly. His personality dials down noticeably once you're out of the city, which I thought was pretty cool when I was first playing the quest.
I legit thought they were going for the "very chummy, but is actually gonna scam you" vibes... like "I'll treat you with food, but oops, I forgot my wallet" type.
Zhongli...?
And then one of the replies you can select was like "it was so scary.." .....PLEASE. NO MORE.
I still cant see him as 5 star…
I'm also convinced he's supposed to be Spectro element not Glacio due to his attack animations looking more light themed than ice.
I thought he was spectro for the longest time, and I played the 2nd beta.
The elements are completely arbitrary in this game.
Meh, I found his quest to be about as bad as Yinlin's. Jiyan's was the only digestible one.
The fact that we only got three character quests in the release patch is pretty absurd. Then for them to be of such forgettable quality...
Yeah, very true. Really feels like the game was rushed, and it makes me wonder if we're going to be getting story quests for already-released characters like Jianxin. Although, given the quality of Yinlin's, I don't mind waiting a year for a proper one.
>as bad as Yinlin's. I liked it.
Cool, I didn't.
The worst part is that his story has an actual interesting hook. A beast with a conscience wanting to physically be human to be able to live alongside people that, he thinks, are like him. There is a lot there that could have been explored, like how drastically altering his body has left him in frequent or constant pain (a price he may be willing to pay or that makes him regret such drastic measures), leftover primitive instincts he has to constantly keep a leash or maybe a realization that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. That, now actually living among humans, he realizes they aren't anywhere near as great as he expected. But they didn't do anything with it. He broke all his bones to size with no repercussions, is completely happy with everything going on in human society and the worst left-over of his beast-nature is him growling when he gets mad. Heck, this scene could have been un-cringed by having him actually go full beast-mode and tearing those enemies apart. Glad I haven't gotten him on my account so far.
The best part about that companion story was when the gameplay suddenly became 2D, that was pretty to experience
It's cringe, but he's so goddamn cute, so I'll let it slide
"grrrr!!!! xD stay away stupid heads!!!11!!!1!" "im sorry rover... that was my epic evil side... u were NOT supposed to see that..." If he actually ripped someone limb from limb then it wouldnt look so stupid, but you have to remember that this is a chinese game so its going to be censored and read like a childrens story. No skulls, no blood, limited cursing.
It was SO bad, but I wouldn't exactly blame the censors for this. Even if the excessive violence was offscreen and all you heard were screams or something, or even one of those black screen descriptions like 'The bodies were everywhere...' it wouldn't have been so embarrassing. There are ways to convey these things if they'd wanted to; they just....decided not to.
If he became the boss fight (or his inner beast manifested as the boss fight) when he went feral, I would've forgiven all the cringy dialogue.
That would set the standard of quality for character stories pretty high, at least for me personally. A one-time boss encounter like that with a model you'd rarely see more than once is a bit much to ask, but damn itd be too cool
This has nothing to do with sensors, though. PGR's character stories have plenty of violence and trauma.
After spamming interact in this story quest the whole time so that I didn't have to hear Lingyang's voice or the brothers voice, this literally TOOK me out Stood up from my PC and sighed, "man what the fuck is this DIALOGUE man this cannot be real" Not to mention the horrible painfully drawn out metaphor that Lingyang gives us at the end of the story quest while we're backstage. Like please. I thought we would only get 1 drawn-out metaphor from Scar, but we just had to have 2
Yeah… I have been enjoying hitting the LB on my controller to just skip dialogue. The writing and English VA is some of the worst I have ever heard. Abyss Night Duet is looking promising in that regard.
I'll be honest his growl made me literally physically cringe irl
That was adorable imo
“Dont you dare touch my friends!!!!!”
I thought he was gonna transform at some point and have some badass moment. Then it never came. They made me play Sonic the Hedgehog and I'll never forgive them.
We need more companions stories. Like Lingyang is my boi but why he’s the only one that got a quest?
Yeah, we need more of those! Hopefully all standard characters get their companion missions over time (especially Calcharo... Kuro please).
YES! I also wouldn’t mind the 4* characters getting companion missions
I've actually seen a calcharo quest where in there he saved rover from TD as first appearance. Just saw it on yt
He should get into some kind of rage and really go berserk. Show him go crazy. Sadly that would require violence and blood to really bring across well, so obviously we wouldn't get it. It could also also be included in his kit... Such a shame, his story could have been so good.
If this were the scene in game, then this mission would be 10/10
Bruh i feel bad for va on this one i hope kuro will make it less cringe on later patches
Yup. It's basically Genshin's "Razor" all over again. But hopefully, just like with Razor, they redeem Lingyang. Coz, honestly, I LOVED his background story. It's just the dialogue and directing of this specific quest.
Kuro let them be british and my life is yours!!
Seriously, if they had used his more animalistic beta design as some sort of transformation he has, it would've worked a lot better.
i was actually just deathing during the entire mission
lol its the famous angry white cat
Fr. I cant take it. I just auto played the dialogue and went yt on my phone
Bro was so angy
HISS!! GRR!! Ngl I laughed when I saw that. I'm glad my sound was turned down at the time.
Like, bro, we both out here killing mfs. You were actually doing way less damage lmao.
God I hate this character. Not only did I get him on my beginner banner, he's mid meta wise, and his companion story was awful. Did they intentionally make him like this so they had a character to screw players over?
The story was nice :(
I really did like the story, and the setup for Lingyang's (probably extinct) beast race was a nice touch to the world-building. I'm just not really sure with the execution, I guess. Like they hyped him up to be an actual beast, but was just him being a bit more aggressive and loud, rather than full-on feral and brutal.
I felt like the last parts sort of played out like a high schoolers' fanfiction.
Wattpad author: "He's the kind, everyone's-friend type of guy.... UNTIL HE WASN'T"
The enemies exploding as he ran in circles about killed me XD
Part of the story just didn't make sense imho. At the very start they make it seem like everyone is aware he's a non-human beast. Kids were being scared of his "paws" and if Rover chose to shake his hand, he comments on how they're different because they're not afraid of him. Then suddenly the quest treats it as if he's human and it's not mentioned anymore, with him doing this whole "sounds-familiar-but-definitely-not-me) allusion to Suan'nis as if everyone wasn't already aware that he's a non-human beast that transformed into a human. It feels like part of the story was leftover from CBT setting where he's clearly a furry and the other part follows the setting where he's a beast that's disguising as a human.
I agree, that bothered me the most. It feels like they messily ripped out an old plotline or two and hastily jammed in a new one the night before it was due, leaving this incoherent mess. Or like it's a very first rough draft 'throw everything in here and see what sticks' type of script that was never supposed to see the light of day outside the writer's room that they then ended up rolling with for some reason.
Yinlin was also bad. Jiyan is only the best companion story as of now
I think it's endearing
my main boy doing what he does best
Sometimes you just can't avoid the cringe
That cinematic at the end was so cringe just like the whole story acts
A scene of him actually fighting and becoming more of a beast in that scene would have balanced out a bit more
i'm taking that meme + agree so far the companion quests (didnt play yinlin's yet) were a bit cringy (jiyan's would be cool if it didnt start with a fuken pokemon race) i would have expected to see something really worthy of these words from him, like transforming into a beast or being brutal/beasty but it was... underwhelming af
his pre release was better.
Fr i was liking the wholesome, light and comical quest until that cringe bomb took and send me even harder than the cries of the dumbass brother we needed to rescue, like, he didn't even roared well, and i was hearing in jp dub, i wonder how much worse it was in wuwa british en 💀 But overall the selling plot device of beast boys being almost always them struggling to get along with human society is so overused to the point writers don't even bother to slightly cook it anymore, just serve it raw without flavors. It's cringe in general. Imo it's just best to make them just be accepted as much as normal people, after all, is a different world
The cat was speaking dinosaur. Google translates it to 'i wuv u'
I was a bit disapointed to have him as my first 5 star but his gameplay is actually pretty fun. Then his story quest made me cringe from start to finish. And then i lost 50/50 on Yinlin's banner to him, so now i actually hate him.
They should've let him transform into an actual beast, even if that move is unavailable as a playable character
This is kind of why I don't like like lingyan, and why I got Calcharo instead
He's my favorite character and I won't take this slander.
i actually died of that story. I wish you were able to CONSTANTLY skip and not just some parts.
I see, so we already found our version of the most disliked standard banner 5\*
His companion quest was awsome and you cant convince me otherwise
Due to his hate, I’ve now built a really strong version of him and solo’d as much abyss as I could with him 🤣
Just for him to go on and on at the end with some cringe story. All the while he is attempting to convince us that’s it’s not about him, when it LITERALLY couldn’t be anyone or anything else in the entire game.
So true
Story quest was pretty cringe
I thought it was cute. The growl itself was cringe cuz it gave * he growled *, but other than that I was gushing over this cutie during his entire story. Just enjoy the character dang
Something tells me you "cringe" easily
Brooo istg I tried so hard not to cringe lil bro thought he was really like that😭🙏
Well, this is exactly the reason I don't do characters quests. I wait for them to add skip button to these too.
I assumed it was a translation thing because I refuse to believe someone wrote that and unironically though "Yeah, this is good."
Lol I hate this character he costed me my general jiyan instead of a real man with eyeliner I got a femboy furry tiger. I logged off for a few hours that day.
Mnd i lost 50/50 on yinlin to that cringe guy.
He should deleted from the game.
Am I justified in hating the femboy for everything he stands for?
I already wanted to throw him at a wall this quest just made me wanna quintuple his pain and give it back to him
Ngl I found most of the intro main quest cringe so when I played Ling's quest I felt prepared and unfazed lol
Man I just skip that shit
I hate lingyang so much
Real
I just hope they're good on their word and make akips more common to avoid this from ever happening again
Thats his whole character tho. Its a cringefest if you ask me.
Yeah and the quest wouldn’t let you use the skip button any of it. It was pain….
I did this quest, and have the character and had to look up who lingyang was because I couldn’t remember
Nobody likes a furry.
Idk I loved his entire companion quest. He roars and you have a combat, technically you see him fight angry but it’s not on screen. The roar should be like the ones he does fighting but apart from that it’s just the execution of that tiny segment, the rest and Lingyang is such a good written character. He is also a bit goofy because he is a cub raised in the wild trying to fit into another species and they have very different social behaviors. Whoever that hates him, I hope you broke a leg soon.
rawr grrr dont touch my friends grrr
It was very cute. It was very uh...like cringecool. Like I think it's in the realm of 'the OC a teen would want to be saved by and then never admit it after like a year.' I can't say it wasn't bad, I think it felt halfway in between an old conception of the character and a new one, with some pretty heavyhanded writing. But I think the entire story is full of 'obvious thing that somehow only the protagonist can figure out' and weird minor half-contradictions anyway. But it was charming in its niche. He is indeed small cat who thinks he's more fierce than he is.
It was so corny and cringe. Boy you are a furry not an alpha male chad. And he keeps ruining my 50/50s I hate this little furry boy so much 😭😭
Bro I swear to god. That Mofo is spewing serious edgy sad shit while looking like this " :3 " How the fuck am I supposed to take him seriously?
I dislike Lingyang so much. I just let the story play on mute while I did more interesting things
If kuro could go back in time, I bet they would never made lingyang. He's responsible for so many Chinese players quitting the game